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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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Patriotic Days 

SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO 




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FEBRUARY 12, 1917 
FEBRUARY 22, 1917 



FLAG SALUTE 

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and 
to the Republic for which it stands — One 
Nation, Indivisible, with Liberty and 
Justice for all." 




Patriotic Days 
1917 



Property of the District 

Compiled By 

Florence E. Bartlett 






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Published by Jonathan H. Wagner 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

Santa Fe, New Mexico 






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FROM THE SCHOOL LAWS OF NEW MEXICO: 



§ 4862. Flag Day. 

Section 56. The twelfth day of February, in each and 
every year is established in the annual school calendar to be 
known as Lincoln Day, in honor of the birthday of Abraham 
Lincoln, and shall be observed with patriotic exercises in the 
public schools, but such day shall in no wise be construed to 
be a holiday. It is also provided that when such day shall 
fall on Sunday or on Saturday, the following or preceding 
day respectively, as the case may be, shall be observed. 

§ 2727. Washington's Birthday. 

Section 2. February twenty-second (Washington's birth- 
day), may hereafter be observed by the public schools as a 
legal holiday. If any teacher or teachers in the rural dis- 
tricts and village schools shall have arranged beforehand a 
program of exercises by the pupils appropriate for the occa- 
sion for such day, the directors of such district shall not 
deduct any moneys from his salary because of his absence 
from active school duty on such day. 



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NOV 5 1917 



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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

STATE OF NEW MEXICO 

PATRIOTIC DAYS 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE. 

To the Teachers and the 

Boys and Girls of New Mexico: 

Many of you have written the Department of Education at 
Santa Fe for material suitable for a program for Washington's and 
Lincoln's birthdays. This Department has been glad to receive 
these requests for it has indicated to us a desire on your part 
to teach and to learn one of the cardinal virtues, — patriotism. 

In keeping the birthdays of these great men year arter year, 
in remembrance of their services to our country, you may learn 
the truths they lived, the beliefs they held, the work they did, and 
understand why all the world honors them. When you celebrate 
these birthdays this year, I wish you to remember their humble 
beginnings, one a surveyor, the other a rail-splitter; remember the 
patient toil and their courage amid difficulties, their resolution when 
confronted - with apparent defeat; remember their great nearts that 
"could feel for another's woe and share in his joys with a friendly 
glow." These were a part of their greatness. No boy or girl, how- 
ever humble and hard his or her lot, should be discouraged when 
contemplating what these great men endured in boyhood and suf- 
fered as men at Valley Forge and at Bull Run. It was hard work 
that placed "Washington first in war, first in peace and first in the 
hearts of his countrymen." It was hard work that laught Lincoln 
to say, "No good thing has been or can be enjoyed by us without 
having first cost labor," and "No men living are more w r orthy to 
be trusted than those who toil up from poverty." 

As you render your program we hope you will remember that 
they went from the labor of farm and shop, from the toil of store 
and office, ready to work, to endure, to serve as well as to fight. 
May you not forget that they knew the long watches of the night, 
the toilsome march, the hardships of the camp, the taste of defeat, 
the fatigue of endless effort, the stress of battle and the pain of 
wounds. Their joys were three parts pain and yet they welcomed 
the rebuffs. 

In the citizenship of the school, the measure of your patriotism 
is shown by your zeal for work, your diligence and your loyalty. 
May you in school and out of it learn to labor for your home ami 
country as Washington and Lincoln did. May you bo brave and 
true and patient, in your work in the school and in a few years you 
wiljl be the same brave and true men and women in the work of 
the state. We hope you have a fine patriotic program for these 
days and we want you to write us about it. 

JONATHAN H. WAGNER, 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



PATRIOTIC DAYS 




LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. 



"Abraham Lincoln was the representative character of his age. 
No man ever so fully embodied the purposes, the affections, an,d 
the power of the people. He came among us. He was one of us. 
His birth, his education, his motives, his feelings, his ambitions, 
were all our own. Had he been born among hereditary aristocrats, 
he would not have been our President. But born in the cabin and 
reared in the field and in the forest, he became the Great Com- 
moner. The classics of the schools might have polished him, but 
they would have separated him from us. But trained in the com- 
mon school of adversity, his calloused palms never slipped from the 
poor man's hand. A child of the people, he was as accessible in the 
White House as he had been in the cabin. 

His practical wisdom made him the wonder of the lands. With 
such certainty did Lincoln follow causes to their ultimate effect 
that his foresight of contingencies seemed almost prophetic. While 
we, in turn, were calling him weak and stubborn and blind, Europe 
was amazed at his statesmanship and awed into silence by the 
grandeur of his plans. 

Measured by what he did, Lincoln is a statesman without a 
peer. He stands alone in the world. He came to the government 
by a minority vote, without an army, without a navy, without money, 
without munitions. He stepped into the midst of the most stupen- 
dous, most wide-spread, most thoroughly equipped and appointed, 
most deeply planned conflict of all history. He stamped upon the 
earth, and two millions of armed men leaped forward to defend 
their country. He spoke to the sea, and the mightiest navy the 
world had ever seen, crowned every wave. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 5 

He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory shall 
shed a glory of this age that shall fill the eyes of men as they 
look into history. An administrator, he saved the nation in the perils 
of unparalleled civil war. A statesman, he justified his measures 
by their success. A philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and 
freedom to another. A moralist, he bowed from the summit of hu- 
man power to the foot of the cross and became a Christian. A medi- 
ator, he exercised mercy under the most absolute abeyance to law. 
A leader, he was no partisan. A commander in a war of the utmost 
carnage, he was unstained with blood. A ruler in desperate times, 
he was untainted with crime. As a man, he has left no word of 
passion, no thought of malice, no trick of craft, no act of jealousy, 
no purpose of selfish ambition. He has adorned and embellished 
ail that is good and all that is great in our humanity, and has pre- 
sented to all coming generations the representative of the divine 
idea of free government." — Charles H. Fowler. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY— FEBRUARY 12, 1809. 
Primary Grades — First, Second, Third. 

1. Song — Battle Hymn of the Republic School 

2. Recitation— "A King"— E. M. Bangs Girl 

3. Story • • 

4. Paper Folding and Tearing Contest Log Cabin, Spade 

5. Concert Recitation "Our Flag'' 

Followed by Salute. 

6. March — (Accompanied by a Clapping Song) 

INTERMISSION 

7. Song • • 

8. Recitation 

9. Spelling Contest of Simple Words Suggesting Lincoln...... 

10. Orchestra — Hum "Yankee Doodle" 

(Imitating Orchestral Instruments) 

11. Recitation • • 

12. Song — "America" 

SELECTIONS 

Abraham Lincoln's New Home — Prose.. •• J. Baldwin 

His First Great Sorrow — Prose J. Baldwin 

Stories of Great Americans — Prose ■ Edward Eggleston 

The Beginner's American History Montgomery 

It would be nice to pin a stencil of Lincoln on the blackboard 
and have several little ones pat it with crayon-filled erasers, then 
remove the stencil. 



PATRIOTIC DAYS 
A KING. 

We talked of kings, little Ned and I, 
As we sat in the firelight's glow; 

Of Alfred the Great, in days gone by, 
And his kingdom of long ago. 

Of Norman William, who, brave and stern, 

His armies to victory led. 
Then, after a pause: "At school we learn 

Of another great man," said Ned. 

"And this one was good to the oppressed, 

He was gentle, and brave, and so 
Wasn't he greater than all the rest? 

'Twas Abraham Lincoln, you know." 

"Was Lincoln a king?" I asked him then. 

And in waiting for his reply 
A long procession of noble men 

Seemed to pass in the firelight by. 

When, "No" came slowly from little Ned, 
And thoughtfully; then with a start, 

"He wasn't a king — outside," he said, 
"But I think he wae — in his heart." 

— Ella Matthews Bangs, in St. Nicholas. 



WASHINGTON OR LINCOLN? 
A Dialogue for Two Boys. 

Frank — John, who do you count greatest of American heroes? 

John — Well, Frank, American history is full of great men; but 
I think Washington ranks first. 

Frank — Washington is great, but why higher than Lincoln? 

John — Well, you see, Washington invented this government, so 
to speak. 

Frank — Invented? Who ever heard of a government being in- 
vented? 

John — Well, founded, then. 

Frank — Why, yes, he helped to do it, but Lincoln, in the same 
sense, kept it from being torn to pieces by secession. 

John — It's like this. There must be a foundation, else a build- 
ing cannot be raised. 

Frank — Yes, but if, after the structure is completed, the founda- 
tion is destroyed, the whole thing tumbles. 

John — I see. Your plea is good. 

Frank — What could be liner than the Emancipation Proclamation? 

John — Nothing but the Declaration of Independence, I guess. 
But look at Washington's character. 

Frank — Lincoln's is- equally fine. If Washington is called "The 
man who never told a lie," Lincoln is equally worthy to be called 
"Honest Abe." 

John — You're right. Guess they rank together. • No one stands 
higher than Washington. 

Frank — Ha! ha! Now I'm ahead, for Lincoln stood six feet four. 

John — Ha! ha! ami Washington six feet two. Men in every 
sense. Three cheers for both! 

Both — Hurrah tor Washington and Lincoln! Hurrah! Hurrah' 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 

OUR FLAG. 
Concert Recitation. 

We pledge allegiance to our flag, 

To it we will be true, 
"We will defend it with our lives, 

Our own red, white, and blue. 

The white, it stands for purity. 
For faith and truth the blue, 

The red, for courage bold and strong, 
There's meaning in each hue. 

We love the stars, the many stars 

Upon their field of blue. 
We love the stripes of red and white, 

We know their meaning, too. 

'"Star Spangled Banner" it is called; 

Sometimes "Old Glory," too, 
Sometimes "The Banner of the Free," 

Our own red, white, and blue. 

We pledge allegiance to our flag, 

To it we will be true, 
We will defend- it with our lives. 

Our own red, white, and blue. 

(Salute.) 



IN BETSY ROSS'S TIME. 

A Play for February. 

(Sara E. Kirk, Belmont School, Philadelphia. ) 

Characters — Betsy Ross, Uncle Sam, Thirteen Little Girls, (rep- 
resenting Thirteen Colonies.) 

Costumes — Betsy Ross, gray dress, Quaker style, white cap and 
kerchief; Uncle Sam in regulation dress; Thirteen Girls, in white. 

Arrangement — Table and chair. Work basket for Betsy Ross, 
with needle, thread, scissors, etc. (Several needles to be threaded 
to guard against Betsy's nervousness.) Scraps of red, white and 
blue scattered about on table with work basket. Thirteen scarfs of 
red and white bunting, each about one yard long. Large flag with, 
stripes and empty blue field. (This is made previously.) The field 
dotted in thirteen places for Betsy Ross to know where to sew the 
stars. Stage to be arranged at one side to allow room for Colonies' 
Drill. 

The Play — (Songs to be introduced at pleasure of teacher.) 
Betsy Ross seated by table with large flag in her lap, sewing. Unci'.' 
Sam standing by her side. 

Uncle Sam — Good morning, Mistress Betsy Ross; I see you ar« 
hard at work. 

Betsy Ross — Yes, General Washington has asked me to make a 
flag for our great country, and I am trying these red and white 
stripes and this blue field. 

Uncle Sam — I think that will be beautiful. (Soft music, march 
time, heard.) But who comes here? I believe it is our Thirteen 
Colonies, just the ones we have now when our flag is being made. 



8 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

(Enter Thirteen Girls, each carrying a white star. If not all 
about one size, two largest first, and so on, down to Delaware, who is 
unaccompanied. March to Uncle Sam and Betsy Ross. First two 
speak, next two, and so on. As they speak they place stars in Betsy 
Ross's lap.) 

"Pennsylvania and New York send these stars to lie 
On the blue field, as in the bright sky." 

"New Hampshire and Rhode Island ask if these stars white 
Are not clear, beautiful and bright?" 

"Virginia and Maryland say these pointers five, 
Will make the flag seem truly alive." 

"These two white ones, Connecticut and Massachusetts say, 
Will make Old Glory as bright as day." 

"North and South Carolina send these two beautiful ones 
As ordered by brave General Washington." 

"Georgia and New Jersey ask if you will permit Uncle Sam 
To add these two — dear little ma'am!" 
"Delaware, although a little state, 
Hopes her star is not too late. 

Betsy Ross — I am sure you have brought me just what I wanted. 
Now, if you will entertain Uncle Sam awhile, you may each have 
a piece of our glorious flag. 



Intermediate Grades — Fourth, Fifth, Sixth. 

1. Song— Battle Hymn of the Republic School 

2. Recitation • • 

3. Quotations — Words of Lincoln 

4. Essay • • 

5. Dance — Folk Dance to Tune of "Yankee Doodle," or Clog Dance 
(j. Recitation • • 

INTERMISSION. 

7. Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean ■ School 

8. Recitation 

9. Flag Drill • • 

10. Story • • 

11. Gettysburg Address 

12. Song— "America" •• School 

SELECTIONS 

Abraham Lincoln's School Days — Prose J. E. Cooke 

Brooke's Fourth Reader. 
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address — 

Searson & Martin's Sixth Reader. 

Baldwin's Sixth Reader. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 9 

TEN DATES IN THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. 

(Each child carries a bright red card, with dates of tinsel pasted 
upon them. Presents card to view as he recites.) 

1809 
In eighteen hundred and nine, 

One February morn, 
In far-away Kentucky, 

Abraham Lincoln was born. 

1828 
In eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, 

The brave and active youth 
Became a careful flatboatsman, 

And pursued his trade with truth. 

1831 
In eighteen hundred thirty-one, 

As a clerk in a country store, 
He earned the name of "Honest Abe," 

Which clung to him evermore. 

1832 
In eighteen hundred thirty-two, 

He joined as volunteer, 
And as captain in the Black Hawk war, 

He was loyal and knew no fear. 

1834 
In eighteen hundred thirty-four, 

He walked one hundred miles 
To take his legislative seat — 

We read his triumphs with smiles. 

1842 
In eighteen hundred forty-two. 

This true son of the sod, 
Won for his own a lady fair — 

Miss Mary Todd. 

1858 
In eighteen hundred fifty-eight, 

In memorable debate, 
The "Little Giant" was defeated, 

So histories relate. 

1861 

In eighteen hundred sixty-one, 

His country needed his care, 
And called her trusted friend to fill 

The Presidential chair. 

1863 
In eighteen hundred sixty-three, 

Mr. Lincoln freed the slaves, 
And won for himself a crown of glory 

Which monuments his grave. 

1865 
In eighteen hundred sixty-five, 

Amidst the nation's grief, 
Our martyr President was laid to rest — 

His great joy was brief. 



10 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

MIGHT AND RIGHT. 

Few, few were they whose swords of old 

Won the fair land in which we dwell; 
We are many, we who hold 

The grim resolve to guard it well. 
Strike for that broad and goodly land 

Blow after blow, till men shall see 
That Might and Right move hand in hand 

And glorious must their triumph be. 

William Cullen Bryant. 



LINCOLN— TRAITS OF CHARACTER 

The rectitude and patience of the rocks. 

The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn. 

The courage of the bird that dares the sea. 

The justice of the rain that loves all leaves. 

The pity of the snow that hides all scars. 

The loving kindness of the wayside well. 

The tolerance and equity of light. 

— Edward Markham. 



LINCOLN SONG. 
Tune — "My Old Kentucky Home." 

'Twas a cabin rude in the wilderness afar 
Where Lincoln, the hero, was born, 

The stars shone bright o'er the little home at night 
And the wild birds caroled in the morn. 

Tho hard times came there was courage in the home, 
And Lincoln, the boy, like the man, 

In all things said, tho the tasks of life were hard, 

"I must do the very best I can." 

CHORUS: 

Ring the bells of honor, oh, ring them loud, today! 
We will sing one song for the boy who did his best 
In the old Kentucky home far away! 



RECITATION— ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

.Mid the names that fate has written 
On the deathless scroll of fame. 

We behold the name of Lincoln, 
Shining like a living flame. 

'Mid the deeds the world remembers, 
(Deeds by dauntless heroes done,) 

We behold the deeds of Lincoln, 
Blazing like a shining sun. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 11 

'Mid the lives whose light illumines 

History's dark and dreadful page, 
We behold the life of Lincoln, 

Lighting up an awful age. 

When the storm of peril threatened 

His loved land to overwhelm, 
Safe the ship of state he guided, 

With his hand upon the helm. 

Statesman, ruler, hero, martyr — 

Fitting names for him I say; 
Wherefore, let us all, as brothers, 

Love his memory today. 

— Susan M. Best. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. 
Grammar Grades — Seventh, Eighth. 

1. Song 

2. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 

3. Questions and Anwers 

4. Bugle Calls— (Whistle or Sing "la.") 

5. Recitation 

6. Boy Scout Drill 

INTERMISSION 

7. Song 

8. Recitation 

9. Story 

10. Tableau — Statue of Lincoln Freeing the Slaves 

11. Quotations from Lincoln .... 

"J 2. Song 

SELECTIONS 

Lincoln, the Great Commoner — Poetry..... Edwin Markhani 

Searson & Martin's Seventh Reader. 

O, Captain, My Captain — Poetry Walt Whitman 

Abraham Lincoln — Poetry Walter Malone 

Searson & Martin's Eighth Reader. 

The Gettysburg Address — Prose • • A. Lincoln 

Searson & Martin's Sixth Reader. 
Baldwin's Sixth Reader. 

Wherever possible it would be nice to end all these programs with 
patriotic selections on a Victrola. 



12 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

WORDS OF LINCOLN. 

Learn the laws and obey them. 

Revolutionize through the ballot-box. 

I am nothing, but truth is everything. 

Killing the dog does not cure the bite. 

Workingmen are the basis of all governments. 

Mercy bears richer rewards than strict justice. 

I am glad to find a man who can go ahead without me. 

Give us a little more light, and a little less noise. 

You must not give me the praise — it belongs to God. 

It is not best to swap horses while crossing a stream. 

He sticks through thick and thin — I admire such a man. 

It is not much in the nature of man to be driven to do anything. 

Success does not so much depend on external help as on self- 
reliance. 

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong. 

If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of 
duty. 

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can 
succeed. 

The strife of elections is but human nature applied to the facts 
of the case. 

This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who 
inhabit it. 

No human counsel has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked 
out, these great things. 

When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, 
better let him. 

Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are 
better than gold. 

My experience and observation has been that those who promise 
the most do the least. 

The face of an old friend is like a ray of sunshine through dark 
and gloomy clouds. 

"I have made it the rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to 
cross Fox River until I get to it.'' 

Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, 
struggling, laboring man, I am for that thing. 

I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him 
while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. 

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; 
and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. 

Without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in 
God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let 
us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. 

If I send a man to buy a horse for me, I expect him to tell me his 
points— not how many hairs are in his tail. 

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not 
bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. 

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy 
of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. 

You can fool some of the people some of the time, or all of the 
people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of 
the time. 

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that "might makes 
right;" it is for us and for our times to reverse the maxim, and to 
show that right makes might. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 13 

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil 
up from poverty — none less inclined to take, or touch, aught which 
they have not honestly earned. 

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations 
against us, nor frightened by menaces of destruction to the govern- 
ment nor of dungeons to ourselves. 

If it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work you 
have indicated, is it not probable that He would have communicated 
knowledge of the fact to me as well as to you? 

Two principles have stood face to face from the beginning of time 
and will ever continue to struggle. The one is. the common right of 
humanity; the other is the divine right of kings. 



TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN. 

"The greatest man of his age." 

"His words and his deeds were one." 

"He sought to make every one better and happier." 

Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. 
He was called "Honest Abe." 
He was kind to dumb animals. 
He liked to read and study. 
His mother taught him to read. 
He was not ashamed to work. 

If ever the face of a man writing solemn words glowed with 
holy joy, it must have been the face of Abraham Lincoln as he bent 
over the Emancipation Proclamation. Here was an act in which his 
whole soul could rejoice, an act that crowned his life. All the past, 
the free boyhood in the woods, the free youth upon the farm, the 
free manhood in the honorable citizen's employment — all his freedom 
gathered and completed in this. And is it any wonder that amon=; 
the swarthy multitudes, ragged and tired and hungry, and ignorant, 
but free forever from anything but the memorial scars of the fetters 
and the whips — is it any wonder there grew up in camps and hovels 
a superstition which saw in Lincoln the image of one who was more 
than man, and whom with one voice they loved to call "Father Ab 
raham?" — Phillips Brooks. 

The nation's debt to these men (Washington and Lincoln) is not 
confined to what it owes them, for its material well-being, incalculable 
though this debt is. Beyond the fact that we are an independent 
and united people, with half a continent as our heritage, lies the fact 
that every American is richer by the noble deeds and noble words 
of Washington and Lincoln. Each of us who reads the Gettysburg 
speech or the second inaugural address of the greatest American of 
the Nineteenth century, or who studies the long campaigns and lofty 
statesmanship of that other American who was even greater, can 
not but feel within him that lift toward things higher and nobler, 
which can never be bestowed by the enjoyment of mere material pros- 
perity. — Theodore Roosevelt. 



14 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

LINCOLN'S METHOD OF STUDY. 



Well, as to education, the newspapers <™°°^£%2?££ 
school more than six months in my Wto. But as ^you y^ ^ 

be a product of culture in J° m e ^ ™ ou ^^Leu talking. I can 
question you ask me to mysel ™*ywM how> whe „ 

say this, that among my e «J* a * ™^^J anybody talked to me in a 
a mere child, I used to get i m bated ^ when^ any at any . 

way I could not understand. ^f^y"' disturbed* my temper, and 
thing else m my life. But that _ ai y bedroom, after 

has ever since. I ca n ««"»* T J%S£g with my father, and spend- 
hearing the neighbors talk ■ °j ^ ^S^m, and down, and trying to 
ing no small pa rt «^J^\£Sg*<£ 'some of their, to me. dark 
make out what was the exact ,meun - t ied t when I got on 

sayings. I could not sleep though I ot£en m j ^^ 

such a hunt after an idea until I had caug ^ ^ and over> 

I had got it, I was not satisfied until ^1 worn . » th0U ght, for any 
until I had put it in anguaSe plain ^ ^ ^ and it haa 
boy to comprehen d . This w as a knm oi P j^atag a thought 

^av^oni^ 

SerisSc ^"SSS^^^-^SSSLSri^S I never put the two 

things together before. is _that is. 1 became a 

oh , yes! .1 "read law " as the phrase m« ^^ and picked 

lawyer's clerk in Springfield, and copied t But yQur 

up what I could of ^^^ e 2uonI had. which I am bound in 
question reminds me of a bit o : educat ion ^ l const tly 

honesty to mention In the combo oi n ly ^ T under . 

came upon the word "cemonstrate thou, t j gaid tQ 

stood its meaning, but soon / ec f ^^trate' more than when I Tea- 
myself, "What do I mean w^*X?Stetoin any ot her proof?" 
son' or 'prove?' How doe f demonst ratio .. certa1n proof," "proof 

I consulted Webster's Dictionary T at torn or Qf wh&t 

beyond the possibility ° f T <^ ht ^"rt'£i s S things were proved 
sort of proof that was I thoug h ; ^^^ to any such extra- 
beyond a possibility of a doubt "\ understood -'demonstration' to 
ordinary process of reasoning as I unae *= l °" f refere nce I could 
D e d Tconsulted all the dictionaries ; and bo ks of re teren^ ^^ 
f)nd , bu l with no better result You ni„ht a ^ 
"blue" to a blind man At last i ^m- means:" and 

a lawyer if you do not understand what ^ aemc r>g ^^ an 

left my situation at Springfield, went home _io my bookg Qf 

stlyeY there ^I^^SwC^^' * eans ' ^ 
Euclid at sight. 1 then found out -J na ^ Q f Am , lliam Lincoln, 



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WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. 

"Looming above all, we see the grand figure of Washington steady 
as a stone mountain. No danger daunts him; no disaster shakes 
him. The times call for patience, he has it; for resources, he finds 
them; for courage and fortitude, his never fail; for supreme self- 
sacrifice, he makes it. Beaten today, he will fight again tomorrow. 
Undermined by treason, discouraged by apathy, fretted by Congress 
and by the State Government, he locks it all in his own breast, and 
to the enemy presents the unruffled front. He will not hear of 
compromise. He will not stoop to concessions. When his nephew 
writes him that some British officers have been entertained at Mount 
Vernon as a matter of policy, he writes a rebuke. Let them burn 
the house if they will; Mount Vernon shall not give shelter to the 
British! 

"Heroic? Yes, sublimely heroic. The world has presented no 
finer spectacle. 

"And that which is most inspiring in the glorious example is 
the fact that Washington's greatness was due not so much to intel- 
lect as to character. He was great because he was bra.v«. resolute, 
pure, devoted, right-minded and right-hearted. From the straight 
line of duty he was not to be tempted, frightened, discouraged or 
misled, and from the oracle of fate he would not take No for an 
answer. He would fight till he won or he died. Thus he rose above 
all rivals — not thinking of rivalry. He became not our greatest 
intellect, not our greatest statesman, not our greatest soldier, but 
cur greatest man." — Thomas E. Watson. 



16 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY— FEBRUARY 22, 1732. 
Primary Grades — First, Second, Third. 

1. Song School 

2. Story • • Pupil or Teacher 

3. Folk Dance Eight Pupils 

4. Recitation • • Pupils 

5. Song ..■• School 

6. Questions and Answers Pupils 

INTERMISSION 

7. Song School 

8. Recitation • • Pupils 

9. Flag Drill and Salute Pupils 

10. Reading ■ ■ Pupil 

11. Patriotic Memory Gems Pupils 

12. Song — "America" • • School 

SELECTIONS 

The Boy Washington — Prose. 
Washington's Birthday — Poetry. 

Brooks' Second Reader. 

The Flag Goes By — Poetry H. H. Bennett 

Holton-Curry Third Reader. 

Washington at Trenton — Prose John Faed 

Wheeler's Third Reader. 

My Country — Poetry Marie Zetterberg 

My Own Land Forever — Poetry J. G. Whittier 

George Washington, the Surveyor — Prose. 
Surveying in the Wilderness — Prose. 

Brooks' Third Reader. 
A contest may be held in paper folding to make Washington hats 
or in paper tearing to make hatchets. 



MOUNT VERNON BELLS. 
Air — "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground.'' 

Where Potomac's stream is flowing, 
Virginia's border through; 

Where the white-sailed ships are going, 
Sailing to the ocean blue; 

Hushed the sound of mirth and singing- 
Silent every one — 

While the solemn bells are ringing 
By the tomb of Washington. 

CHORUS 
Tolling and knelling, 

With a sad, sweet sound, 
O'er the waves the tones are swelling. 

By Mount Vernon's sacred ground. 

Long ago the warrior slumbered — 
Our country's father slept; 

Long among the angels numbered — 
They the hero-soul have kept. 






WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 

But the children's children love him 

And his name revere; 
So, where willows wave above him, 

Sweetly, still, his knell you hear. 

Sail, O ships, across the billows, 

And bear the story far, 
How he sleeps beneath the willows — 

"First in peace and first in war." 
Tell, while sweet adieus are swelling, 

Till you come again, 
He within the hearts is dwelling 

Of his loving countrymen. 

— From Song Knapsack. 



OURS. 

Napoleon was great, I know, 

And Julius Caesar, and all the rest; 

But they didn't belong to us, and so 
I like George Washington the best. 

— Selected. 



SOMETHING TO REMEMBER. 

Dear little boys, whose birthday comes 

With Washington's today. 
You may not be the President 

(Although, perhaps, you may); 
But each who does the best he can 

May be, like him, a noble man. 

— Youth's Companion. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON. 

"How did George Washington look?" asked Nell. 
"What was he like? Won't you please to tell?" 
Thus I answered: "A courtly man. 
Wearing his honors as heroes can. 
Erect and tall, with his six feet two; 
Knee breeches, buckles, frills and queue; 
Powdered brown hair; blue eyes, far apart; 
Strong-limbed and fearless, with gentle heart; 
Gracious in manner toward every one. 
Such, my Nellie, was Washington. 

— Selected. 



18 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

WHY AM I LIKE WASHINGTON? 

(A Small Boy's Conundrum.) 
(A little boy comes on the stage wearing a very little hat, that 
he touches, puts on in different ways as he recites, pausing a little 
before giving the last stanza.) 

I've had this hat. this little hat, 

So long, I can't remember; 
Worn sometimes this way, sometimes that, 

From April to December. 

Now, why like Washington am I? 

I am, you will confess it, 
If my conundrum you will try, 

And see if you can guess it. 

I am much surprised at such a pause; 

That you cannot guess that yet! 
I am like Washington because — 
I've got this little hat yet. 

— M. B. C. S. 



LITTLE HATCHET DRILL. 

Dress the boys in paper cocked hats; red, white, or blue paper 
sashes, with bows at knees to match. Carry imitation hatchets cut 
out of pasteboard or shingle wood. Boys enter with hatchets over 
shoulders and sing "la" until all are in front of school. 

(Adapted to tune — "Yankee Doodle.") 
We're like George Washington of old. 
We have our little hatchets; 
(All hold up hatchets.) 
But we'll not hurt our papas' trees, 
(All shake heads.) 
Because we know we'd catch it. 
(All give themselves a spank.) 

CHORUS: 

Chop, and chopper, oh, ho ho! 
(Motion.) 
We'll cut the wood so handy 
And make a pile about so high, 
( Uaise left hands.) 
All fixed so neat and spandy. 

If you have any wood to cut, 
(Point to School.) 
We'd really Ilk© to do it. 
(Nod heads.) 
II would ho so clean and nice 
You surely could not rue it. 

Chorus. 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 19 

But now goodbye, we go to work, 
We hear our mothers calling; 
(Left hand behind ear.) 
And if you listen carefully 

You may hear big trees falling. 
(Lift hatchets high.) 

Chorus. 

— Edith Cameron. 



FLAG EXERCISE FOR SIX LITTLE GIRLS. 

(Each little girl carries a small flag, and the exercise is made 
prettier with two red tissue caps, two white tissue caps, and two blue 
ones.) 

All- 
Six little girls are we, 
Six little flags you see, 
We have a word to say, 
On this glad holiday. 

First Little Girl — Be brave like Washington. 
Second Little Girl — Be kind to every one. 
Third Little Girl — Be true in all you say. 
Fourth Little Girl — Be gentle in your play. 
Fifth Little Girl — Be pure in act and word, 
Sixth Little Girl — Be happy as a bird. 



WHO KNOWS? 

I wonder if George Washington, 

When he was nine years old, 
Turned out his toes and brushed his hair, 
And always shut the door with care, 

And did as he was told. 
I wonder if he ever said, 
"Oh, dear!" when he was sent to bed. 

— Youth's Companion. 



HATCHET DRILL AND SONG. 
(Tune — "Swing, Cradle, Swing.") 

Thou art known through the North, (1) 

Our Washington; (2) 
South should set thy glories forth, (3) 

Our Washington. (2) 

CHORUS: 

Brave hero, brave hero, thy name shall live; 
Brave hero, brave hero, praise will we give. (4) 



20 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

Loved by all who're dwelling West, (5) 

Our Washington; (2) 
In the East thy name is blessed, (6) 

Our Washington. (2) 

Chorus. 

Monument so high o'erhead, (7) 

Our Washington; (2) 
Far around thy fame hath spread, (8) 

Our Washington. (2) 

Chorus. 

What would do thy country harm, (9) 

Our Washington. (2) 
Down we'll cut with strong right arm, (9) 

Our Washington. (2) 

Chorus. 

(This last song might be sung by ten girls, with ten hatchets.) 

(1) All hatchets pointed north. 

(2) All hatchets resting on shoulder. 

(3) All hatchets pointed south. 

(4) All swing, first with right hand, then with left, overhead. 

(5) All hatchets pointed west. 

(6) All hatchets pointed east. 

(7) All held high up. 

(8) Held far out and swept around. 

(9) Used as if cutting down something stubborn. 



ACROSTIC— WASHINGTON. 

Worthy, watchful, wise and good, 
Who was it? Do you know? 
If you can't guess, just wait a bit, 
Our letters soon will show. 

Able, active, and alert — 

For so the British thought, 
Was he who led them, when our sires 
For independence fought. 

Steadfast his purpose, high his aim, 
His every act did show, 
While through the dark and dreadful years 
He fought the sullen foe. 

Hope ever filled his loyal heart, 

Though hardships oft he knew; 
Through distrust and through trials sore 
His honor brighter grew. 

Independence won at last, 

His soldiers home he sent, 
But soon they called him forth again, 
To be their President. 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 21 

Needful it was that he should guide 
The new-formed ship of state; 
And so, for eight more years, he served 
As ruler, wise and great. 

Grand, gentle, gracious, was his life; 
And when at last death came 
And bore his spirit to his God, 
It could not dim his fame. 

Tenderly, tearfully, they laid 

Him by Potomac's side: 
And all the nation mourned as one, 
Its hero and its pride. 

Over his grave thei flowers strew 
And tell it once again — 
The story of his life and work, 
'Twill make us better men. 

Nobly as he, then, let us live, 
Duty obey, and truth; 
Our country thus will serve right well 
In manhood or in youth. 

Ail- 
Now we show this well-loved name 

In letters one by one, 
Of course you know it — now you read 

The name of Washington. 



GREAT OR GOOD. 

To be as great as Washington, 
I could not if I would; 

So I've made up my mind 
To try to be as good. 



A RALLY. 



Little folks, come marching forth, 

Little feet, keep time, 
In the East and West and North 

And the Southern clime. 
Lay your lesson books away, 

Leave your sums undone; 
We must celebrate today 

Brave George Washington. 
Little yet you understand 

All his worth and truth; 
Only know he saved the land, 

Faithful from his youth. 

— Youth's Companion. 



22 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

We're studying to be citizens 
Of the United States; 

We're making ourselves ready 
With arithmetic and slates; 

With trying to be honest 
And generous and true, 

With working with our might and main 
At all we have to do. 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. 
Intermediate Grades — Fourth, Fifth, Sixth. 



1. Song — "Star Spangled Banner" • • School 

2. Recitation Pupil 

3. Quotations 

4. Bugle Calls — (Whistle or sing "la") Boys 

5. Essay 

6. Recitation 

INTERMISSION 

7. Song • • 

8. Flag Exercise (with Delsarte poses) Girls 

9. (Recitation • ■ 

10. Essay 

11. Tableau — Washington Crossing the Delaware 

12. Song — "America" School 

Topics for Essays — 

The History of Our Flag. 

The Boyhood of Washington. 

Famous Paintings of George Washington. 

SELECTIONS 

Washington, D. C. — Prose...- Around the World, Book Four 

George Washington in the Wilderness — Prose J. E. Cooke 

My Country — Poetry W. J. Pabodie 

Brooks' Fourth Reader. 

Heroism — Prose • • C. C. Everett 

Concord — Poetry R. W. Emerson 

Jones' Fourth Reader. 
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. . . .Edward Eggleston 

The Beginner's American History Montgomery 

The American Boy — Poetry ■ • Anonymous 

There Is a Land — Poetry J. Montgomery 

The Schoolhouse and the Flag — Poetry F. T. Southwick 

Searson & Martin's Fifth Reader. 

The Flag of Our Country — Prose- • R. C. Winthrou 

The American Flag — Poetry J. R. Drake 

Baldwin's Sixth Reader. 
A Famous Toast — Prose Anonymous 

Ilolton & Curry's Sixth Reader. 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 23 

America— Poetry , s> F _ Smitu 

Our Native Land — Poetry C. T Brooks 

Washington's Rules of Conduct— Prose •■'........... 

The Country's Call— Poetry ' Thompson 

The Flag— Prose George F. Hoar 

The Flag Goes By— Poetry H. H. Bennett 

The Name of Old Glory— Poetry James W. Riley 

Our National Banner — -Prose Edward Everett 

The Ship of State— Poetry H. W. Longfellow 

The Man Without a Country — Prose e E. Hale 

The Rising in 1776 — Poetry '.'. .t. B. Read 

Dear Land of All My Love — Poetry Sidney Lanier 

Searson & Martin's Sixth Reader. 



SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN CONCERNING WASHINGTON. 

"Until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which 
our race has made in wisdom and virtue be derived from the vener- 
ation paid to the immortal name of Washington!" — Lord Brougham. 

"Illustrious man, before whom all borrowed greatness sinks into 
insignificance." — Charles James Fox. 

If, among all the pedestals supplied by history for public char- 
acters of extraordinary nobility and purity, I saw one higher than 
all the rest, and if I were required at a moment's notice to name the 
fittest occupant of it, I think my choice, at any time during 1 the last 
forty-five years, would have lighted, and it would now light, upon 
Washington.— Gladstone. 

His integrity was most pure; his justice the most inflexible I 
have ever known; no motive of interest or consanguinity, of friend- 
ship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed* in 
every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. Washing- 
ton's fame will go on increasing until the brightest constellation in 
yonder heavens is called by his name. — Thomas Jefferson. 

America has furnished the world the character of Washington. If 
our institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled 
them to the respect of mankind. — Webster. 



WASHINGTON— TRAITS OF CHARACTER. 

Serene and steadfast as the hills. 

The cheer of lighthouse in the night. 

A patriot to # the people true. 

The wisdom* of the thoughtful bee. 

A strength like air that yields, yet holds. 

The eloquence of wordless worth. 

A conscience sleepless as the stars. 

— Edward A. Horton. 



WHERE THE FLAG WAS FIRST RAISED. 

The spot where Washington unfurled the first American flag is 
marked by a small park and an observatory on Prospect Hill, in 
Somerville, Massachusetts. This eminence occupied the same rela- 
tion to Boston on the northwest that Bunker Hill occupied on the 
north, and, next to that more famous spot, was the stronghold of 
Washington's troops. How many Americans could have told where 
the flag of the United States was first raised? — Primary Education. 



24 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

NUTS TO CRACK. 

(For Fourteen Pupils.) 
American Historical Acrostic. 

(Note. — Let each write the name in his verse on the blackboard 
so that when the exercise is concluded all can spell the name 
formed by the initial letters.) 

When the dark clouds of war wrapped our country in gloom, 
This brave general's victories averted our doom. 

This splendid old man, with his eloquent speech 
On themes patriotic, all hearts sought to reach. 

From England this soldier, philanthropist, came, 
To found our fair Georgia and give her a name. 

Ride! ride through the country the warning to sound, 
Arousing the patriots a nation to found! 

Our honored chief magistrate, brave 'fore the foe. 
The hand of a murderous assassin laid low. 

And thou, Sage of Concord, with word and with pen, 
High thinking, pure living did'st seek to teach men. 

Of snow-bound New England one sweetly did sing, 
Of faith, home and country his verses all ring; 

This Puritan youth was both gentle and brave. 
The sweetest of maidens her heart to him gave. 

Ah, brave Irish soldier! so bold in the fray, 
Thy ride makes thee famous the world o'er today. 

O, noble young patriot! Shot as a spy! 

He grieved he but once for his country could die. 

By the Hudson's broad stream, in a fair sunny nook, 
This man's graceful pen gave us many a bright book. 

A swarthy King Philip, with war-whoop and shout, 

At the head of his tribes sought the whites to drive out. 

Thy hand, O fanatic! one sorrowful day 

Was raised 'gainst our chief and his life took away. 

Ah, here's Brother Jonathan. Washington's friend, 
A soldier, a patriot, his fame shall not end. 

See these crowds madly rushing free lands to obtain 
In this new territory. Pray, what is his namo? 

With three little ships bold Columbus came o'er. 
This one of the three bore him back from this shore. 

Now, friends, take these primals and with them you'll spell 
The name we must honor — you all know it well. 

"First in war. first in peace," 

Oh, what more can we say? 
"In the hearts of his countrymen 

First!" Yes, for aye! 

— Youth's Companion. 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 25 

FLAG QUIZ. 

First flag. When made? 

How many stripes? Why? 

How many stars? Why? 

How many red stripes? 

How many white stripes? 

Why were colors red, white and blue chosen? 

When is the flag's birthday? 

How old is the flag? 

When will the next star be added? Why? 

How many stars has the flag of 1907? 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. 
Grammar Grades — Seventh, Eighth. 

1. Song — Star Spangled Banner School 

2. Recitation— "Love of Country," Sir Walter Scott .... Bov 

3. Essay 

4. Drill — Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls ■■.... 

5. Recitation 

6. Patriotic Quotations .'.'..'. 

INTERMISSION 

7. Song 

8. Recitation 

9. Story ....................'. 

10. Tableau— "The Spirit of '76"— Illustrated in S. & M. Sixth Reader 

11. Minuet — (In Colonial Costume) 

1 2. Song — "America" ■ 

SELECTIONS 

Patriotism— Poem Bishop J. L. SpauldiiM 

Washington— Prose Abraham Lincoln 

Washington — Poetry G. G. Byron 

My Country— Poetry Marie Zetterburg 

Searson & Martin's Seventh Reader. 

America, the Beautiful— Poetry Katharine L. Bates 

Star Spangled Banner — Poetry Francis S. Key 

No Land Like Ours — Poetry J. G. Percival 

Our Flag— Poetry G. W. Cutter 

Love of Country— Poetry Sir Walter Scott 

Searson & Martin's Eighth Reader. 
Washington's Farewell Address 

Topics for Essays — 

Washington and His Friends. 
Washington at Trenton. 
The Home Life of Washington. 
The Early Life of Washington. 
Washington and Lafayette. 
The Character of Washington. 



26 PATRIOTIC DAYS 

WASHINGTON— THE MAN 

John — How old was Washington when he became a surveyor? 

William — He was sixteen years old. 

John — How much did he earn as a surveyor? 

William — From seven to twenty-one dollars a day. 

John — What kind of land did he survey? 

William— Wild land. 

John— What kind of a life did he lead? 

William — He crossed rough mountains, rode his horse through 
swollen streams. He slept out of doors on a little hay. He cooked 
his own food. 

John — How long did he lead this life? 

William — Three years. 

John — Then what did he become? 

William — A soldier. 

Roy — Who sent Washington on a journey? 

Herbert — The governor of Virginia. 

Roy— What for? 

Herbert — To carry a letter to some French officers. 

Roy — What was the letter about? 

Herbert — It told the French to keep off the English ground. 

Roy — How long was the journey? 

Herbert — Six hundred miles through the woods. 

Roy — Tell me some more about the journey. 

Herbert — The weather was cold, the river frozen, the ground cov- 
ered with snow, and the paths hard to find. 

Roy — Did he get home safely ? 

Herbert — Yes, but once he was almost drowned as he was cross- 
ing a river on a raft. , 

Etta — Whom did Washington marry? 
Belle — Mrs. Martha Custis. , 

Etta — Where did they live? 
Belle — At Mount Vernon. 
Etta— Of what was he fond? 
Belle — Hunting and fishing. 
Etta— What did he like to do? 

Belile — He liked to ride over his large plantation to see that 
everything was all right. 

Joseph — When did the war between England and America begin? 
Isaac — On the 19th of April, 1775, by battle at Lexington. 
Joseph — What was the war about? 

Isaac — Taxes. The English taxed the Americans without asking 
their consent. , 

Joseph — How long did the war last? 
Isaac — Eight years. 
Joseph — Who conquered? 
Isaac — The Americans. 

Thomas — Did Washington like to bo a soldier? 

Brenton — No, he would rather be a farmer. 

Thomas — When the war was over, what did ho do? 

Brenton — He went to Mount Vernon. , 

Thomas — Why didn't he stay there? 

Brenton — The American people wanted him to be their president. 

Thomas — How long was he president? 



WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 27 

Brenton — Eight years. 

Thomas — When did he die? 

Brenton — In 1779. 

Thomas — How old was he when he died? 

Brenton — He was sixty-seven years old. 

Marion— When Washington was a man he was a surveyor, then 
he was a soldier, then he was a farmer. After that he was a soldier 
again. Then he was the first president of the United States. 

The exercises closed with a concert, recitation by all, standing 
and looking at the picture of Washington. 

"We honor Washington, first in war, first in peace, first in the 
hearts of his countrymen." 

This is the program in brief: 

1. Salute to the flag. 

2. Washington and the flag. 

3. Washington pictures. 

4. Washington acrostic. 

5. Washington, the boy. 

6. Washington, the man. 

7. Salute to Washington. 



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